April 14 is celebrated as World Chagas Disease Day.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said this year’s commemoration will focus on raising awareness of Chagas and “access to essential care and the implementation of disease surveillance at the care level. primary health care”.
The US Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) states that Chagas is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which is transmitted to animals and humans by insects.
Chagas is often referred to as a silent killer (silent killer) because if not detected early, this disease can lead to serious heart and digestive problems and even be fatal.
This disease is found mainly in Latin America. But according to the WHO, Chagas has also been detected in other places, including the United States, Canada, several European countries and some African countries, the eastern Mediterranean and the western Pacific.
The WHO reports that 6-7 million people worldwide are infected with Chagas and that 30,000-40,000 new cases are detected each year. About 12,000 Chagas-related deaths are reported each year.
The name of this disease is taken from Carlos Justiniano Chagas, the Brazilian doctor who discovered the disease in 1909. [uh/ab]
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